Nel Pori Urundai
Nel Pori Urundai is a crispy, mild sweet made by blending nelpori with jaggery syrup, ghee & flavours. Nel Pori Urundai is similar to Pori Urundai except that the pori (puffed rice) is replaced with Nel Pori (puffed rice with bran). Nel Pori is commonly made during Karthigai Deepam festival in villages traditionally.
Servings8 balls
Ingredients
- 3 and 1/2 cups pori puffed rice
- 1/2 cup jaggery
- 1/4 cup water or little less It should be just for the level of jaggery to immerse
- 1 teaspoon ghee + to grease hands
- a generous pinch cardamom powder
Instructions
- Measure jaggery, add it to a pan, add water and mix it well.
- Heat it up for 2 mins,let jaggery dissolve. Strain to remove impurities.
- Remove the nel (the husk) from the pori and clean it, set aside.
- Add the strained jaggery syrup to the pan and heat it up another time.
- Then add cardamom powder and keep cooking in low flame. Keep a separate plate ready filled with little water. Take a drop of jaggery syrup and put it in water, it should stand firm. However, it should not dissolve.
- First it will form soft loose ball then forms a firm hard ball. It should not be loose (soft ball) when you roll it with your fingers. This is the consistency we need. So when this consistency is reached, add cardamom powder and ghee.
- Now mix well, so that pori gets completely coated with the syrup. I added in 2 batches. Lastly, mix well so that the syrup coats the pori evenly.
- After that, grease your palms with ghee or oil, roll them into tight balls taking care not to break the pori. Similarly repeat to finish. Enjoy Nel Pori Urundai!
Notes
- Make sure to clean the nel pori first then start with the pori making process.
- Be careful in checking the consistency else making them into balls will be tough.
- Be little quick while shaping the balls.
- You can make pori urundai will soft ball consistency too. I have made both with soft and hard ball consistencies, both taste good.
- If it hardens in the end for the last few balls then heat up the mixture for a minute to loosen then make balls.
- The color of the pori urundai totally depends on the jaggery variety.
- The method is the same for making aval pori urundai and also kadala urundai.
Nutrition Facts
Nel Pori Urundai
Amount Per Serving (40 g)
Calories 83
Calories from Fat 9
% Daily Value*
Fat 1g2%
Saturated Fat 0.4g3%
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.02g
Monounsaturated Fat 0.2g
Cholesterol 2mg1%
Sodium 1mg0%
Potassium 7mg0%
Carbohydrates 18g6%
Fiber 0.1g0%
Sugar 13g14%
Protein 0.4g1%
Calcium 5mg1%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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